mlpmt said:To be, or not to be: that is the question, but the real question is: which of this combo's is more versatile from jazz to metal ???
Thanks in advance guys!
A future MESA owner[/b]
no soul said:F-50, just swap the speaker for a V30 and you are set.
Better yet, buy the F100.
Seriously, why does nobody like the F100??
no soul said:F-50, just swap the speaker for a V30 and you are set.
Better yet, buy the F100.
Seriously, why does nobody like the F100??
tele_jas said:I'll be the odd man out here... I'd say go with the Rectoverb! I have one and chose it over the F30 and F50. I also chose it over the lonestar's. I got it mainly for the Rectifier Distortion, but when I went looking for a new amp recently for a more "country" clean flavored amp, I never thougt about trying my ROV until one day I had my tele out and grabbed my ROV instead of my Fender Deluxe and was totally blow away with what I heard!!! I used to use my Deluxe with a Tubescreamer or my V-twin, but with the ROV you can turn the gain all the way up on the clean channel and it gets that nice bite to it of a deluxe or vibrolux turned up to about 6 or 7, but without the volume (if you don't need it). Plus you get the solo boost for leads and then a dirty channel too!! The Raw mode on the v2.0 ROV's is great for a semi distortion or classic rock distortion, the vintage can do this to with the gain down a bit more.
I truely do like my Rectoverb!! I just wished it was a 2x12 for what I do.. So I bought a Soldano 2x12 empty combo cab I'm going to try to put my Chassis in so I can keep my Rectoverb but have a 2x12. I don't know if I'd recommed that for everyone, but I wanted to try it. I'll know if it works probably by next weekend.
Good luck!! It's a hard choice, and you'll find tones you like in all boogies.... It just depends on what you really need as to which amp to get.
BUT!!!!! the ROV is still too darn heavy
What is the weight difference between the three?
I think that the F-30 is somewhere around 40 lbs, the F-50 around 50 lbs., and the Rectoverb around 10,000 GVW. Actually I think that the Rectoverb is around 80 lbs roughly. I wish that Mesa would state the dimensions and weight on their products. Try searching the web, the dimensions and weight are nearly as well kept secrets than how the pyramids were built.
TheRazMeister said:No Soul, I can't speak for others...but the only one I tried was a used one at Guitar Center and I was underwhelmed by the overdrive tone. The clean sounded fine, especially with a single coil pickup. My only other reference is a sound clip someone posted which also sounded underwhelming (is that a word ). Again, I may be a little different in that the gain tone comes first and then I work back to the clean. This doesn't mean there's anything wrong with the amp, just that my 1st 2 points of reference did not give me a reason to consider the F-100.
no soul said:F-50, just swap the speaker for a V30 and you are set.
Better yet, buy the F100.
Seriously, why does nobody like the F100??
no soul said:TheRazMeister said:No Soul, I can't speak for others...but the only one I tried was a used one at Guitar Center and I was underwhelmed by the overdrive tone. The clean sounded fine, especially with a single coil pickup. My only other reference is a sound clip someone posted which also sounded underwhelming (is that a word ). Again, I may be a little different in that the gain tone comes first and then I work back to the clean. This doesn't mean there's anything wrong with the amp, just that my 1st 2 points of reference did not give me a reason to consider the F-100.
no soul said:F-50, just swap the speaker for a V30 and you are set.
Better yet, buy the F100.
Seriously, why does nobody like the F100??
uhhhhhhh, you do know its the same pre amp youre getting in the F50 or F30 right????
cnumb44 said:The EL84s in the F30 are going to yield a different sound quality than the 6L6's in the F50 and ROV. I have played both the F30 and F50 and like them both. I would have chosen the 50 over the 30 just because I thought the sound had more longitude (clean to crunch).
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